Jack Park Quotes

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Jack Park Quotes

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World Quest Guild (Quests.world)
In the future, we will think of work differently: We will ask: what is there that needs to be done in the world? And then mobilize a collective human effort to achieve it.

We have to do what jobs we have to do to survive – but what is life really about? Going on quests – together or alone – to do the worthwhile things in the world (Helping people in need! Cool, instrumentally or intrinsically worthy project!)! World Quest Guild is a central group and dashboard for those playing the “larger game” available in life – that of working together to get everyone’s needs met, solve humanity’s critical problems, and understand the mysterious.

Watch this ridiculously inspiring introduction section by Jack Park (Youtube ~20min on 2x speed), who knew Doug Engelbart . Gets all the way from knowledge management to the metaverse/starting a guild/a quest manager for the world. (“Key Quotes”)

See also: ideabank.global and Notion (WIP)

Guild Google group: Joinhttps://groups.google.com/g/world-quest-guild
Guild Discord chat server: Join! https://discord.gg/GTxTPft
Quests Dashboard (below): Add Quests!

“I'm [alive] today and it's because I learned how to do research. Look, I was simply motivated, you know what I'm saying? Now we're faced with a pandemic [and climate change] and everybody should be as motivated as I was when I was diagnosed with leukemia, but they’re not... the point is [these are] going to be equivalent to a diagnosis of leukemia very soon for all humankind.” ~Jack Park

See also: globalideabank.connectr.site • worldgestalts.connectr.site • projectdb.jacobcole.net

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Excess Vetted Startup Ideas Discussion

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Misc

  • Vrcoralreefs.jacobcole.net – #projectPage

  • Idea #ideaSeed #XPrize We need to create accessible ways for people to experience the impact of climate change in way that is “in your face”

  • We need to create more “in your face ways” to experience the impacts of climate change on beautiful ecosystems like coral reefs etc., and more generally share how to create more ways ways from more people to experience how great these things that are already being destroyed. It's easy not to think about them when you don't interact with them.

  • Maybe more documentaries like the Living Sea. Maybe interactive games and experiences that take place in real environments which are degrading, in general this is a use case of the #Metaverse

  • #socialenterprise #nonprofitHelp funnel resources/funding to under resourced/underdog nonprofits via e-commerce/social enterprise; the idea would be to move towards helping nonprofits operate better through a connector entity (like No Rival Industries) where projects are created sustainably on a volume basis and purely crowdfunded where 100% of profits are given away on the notion of ideation for the next-gen of nonprofit fundraising

  • Volume 1: COVID hits, manufacture handcrafted cloth masks in the US and send out donations to shelters, hospitals and grocers across the country

  • Volume 2: Partner w/ Spread The Vote ---nonprofit that fights to help the 21 million eligible voters in the US get IDs in voter-ID required states; we sell our first apparel line to get funding towards this cause --$40 is their operating cost for an ID aka 4 shirts sold net 1 ID. How can we scale this without a marketing budget?

  • Volume 3 and onward--TBD, looking for ways to scale and the “why” for starting this

  • #actionable #specific “ThunderPledge”  Thunderpledge.jacobcole.net – a website like Kickstarter for pledging to take collective actions when you reach a critical mass. For instance, there are a large number of people who would consider becoming vegetarian for climate reasons, but feel like it's pointless unless millions of others do the same. Using ThunderPledge you could pledge to become vegetarian only when a million other people have also committed the same. At that point, not only would you know for certain that your change is part of making a difference, but you would have a ready-made support group of people all trying to do the same thing.

This generalizes to many  applications – for instance organizing a boycott. Boycotts are useless unless they reach critical mass. (A friend called this “Kickstopper”!). Additionally it could perhaps be worth making a variant “ThunderVote” specifically dedicated to the voting use case. If you are, for instance, a democrat in a largely Republican area, you might think it's useless for you to get out and vote. But using this site, you could mark who you’d vote for with the touch of a button, but only pledge to actually make it to the polls if a thousand other people of your same political leanings in your district do the same.

Looking for: designer, full stack engineering collaborator. Email [email protected] #lookingfor
- Robots to clean up trash in delta in Laos ~Dheera
- Document stories of grandparents’ daily life routines from the past for cultural heritage and knowledge persistence

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Actual Ongoing Startups

  • Great 3D Video Chat

  • https://cubechat.io/

  • Great Icebreaker Tools

  • http://speakeasy.co/

  • https://icebreaker.video/

  • Great Virtual Intellectual Salon Space

  • http://gather.town/

  • Program to Identify High-Potential People in Developing Country and Train Them to Be Engineers

  • https://www.learningdollars.com/

  • Security Guard Robots

  • Cobaltrobotics.com

  • Frictionless thought capture

  • Ideaflow.io (#internal ) Ideaflowproject.jacobcole.net (https://www.ideaflow.io/ email [email protected] for details)

  • Tools to Augment Creativity, Brainstorming Software

  • ideaflow

  • Mind Mapping / Graph Making Tools

  • ideaflow

  • Tools that Help People Be Better Researchers

  • ideaflow

  • Ways to Meet People with Related Ideas

  • Ideaflow

  • Global Idea Banks globalideabank.jacobcole.net

  • Ideaflow

  • Data integration and graph query tool

  • “iTunes store for data”

  • Intelligence augmentation / annotation layer for browser and computer

  • Global screen record for eidetic memory of screen content

  • See also: http://hiringlist.jacobcole.net/

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Well-Run, Worthwhile Initiatives that could use Support or Funding

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Bottom Up World Issues List from Disempowered Groups

  • done Curb cuts on sidewalks to support wheelchair access

  • Hooks for hands free voice recognition interfaces to common websites like Gmail and Facebook for quadriplegics and others

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General topic areas

  • Regenerative Agriculture

  • Grant / subsidy to help people transition to regen agriculture

  • ThunderpledgeProject organize lobby to get gov grants for regen ag just like we do for electric cars

  • Open google doc listing best regenerative agriculture practices

  • E.g.: having a few dogs in field w cattle causes them to clump and eat grass evenly vs just choicest morsels → stimulates sustainable grass growth/impacts carbon impact

  • related: #curate #OpenList guides on best practices for how to sustainably and compassionately do the work of EVERY industry

  • Open source SOM (Soil Organic Matter) Meter designs - like geiger counter for soil #hardware #opensource #idea

  • #Project Social Support for Regenerative Famers: #problem going regenerative makes enemies of industrial farm reps and you don’t have a community.  SocialSupportForRegenerativeFarmers.jacobcole.net

  • Ways to change social structure in town #openProblem

  • Create social network for regen ag movement #idea

  • Related: carbonbase.co #communityBuilding

  • ~Jerry Michalski

  • Relevant people:

  • josh whiton https://www.makesoil.org/map

  • dave witzel . joel soliton polyphase farms
  • Florence Reed <> sustainable harvest international Sustainable Harvest International (SHI) provides farming families in Central America with the training and tools to preserve our planet's tropical forests while overcoming poverty.

  • soil health Klaus mager

  • About: ran food ops for disney all over the world

  • Skills: ran food ops for disney all over the world
  • Goals: Trying to fix food system

- #external Charles Massy

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  • Address COVID-19

  • Address Climate Change

  • Rapidly dying coral reefs

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- Tech that doesn't require screens – the medium of better labor-saving tools, robots, and objects, is much harder to pervert to addict people and waste their time than facebook or youtube.  ~Dheera

  • Intelligent furniture – e.g. self driving trashcan. Only one trashcan in apartment ~Dheera

  • (There’s also of course room for labor saving digital tools) ~Jacob

  • Address the fading of our knowledge of the wisdom and ways of life of rapidly vanishing/changing ancient cultures. E.g. tai chi/baguazhang knowledge

  • Address massive scale mental health issues/chronic stress

  • Address homelessness in SF

  • Address widespread obesity
  • Address screen addiction / pathologically addictive software
  • Address massive scale sleep deprivation
  • How do we move towards more efficient work/increased productivity/shorter required workweek?

  • idea Build oases in society where people can be fully taken care of

  • introduced to delicious food have tastes changed

  • like burning man camp soft landing
  • could help homeless
  • like churches

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  • Make digital toolmaking much easier

  • #problem full stack Web development is insanely complex

  • Address insane air pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Delhi, India, and other places

  • Assistive Technology – lots of low hanging fruit. Ping [email protected]

  • e.g. people with hand use challenges like RSI, quadriplegics

  • General hands free voice interfaces

  • “cognitive prosthetics” e.g. cueing apps for people with brain injuries

  • Liberating People from Dangerous and Menial Jobs

  • Security Guard Work

  • Security Guard Robots

  • Cobaltrobotics.com

  • Desire for discovery, desire for creativity

  • Desire for knowledge, desire for connection, desire for synthesis,

  • In the process of storing our ideas, the storage interface distracts us, our thoughtstream is disrupted and then we are f--ed up #problem

  • Achieving Peace of Mind

  • Security

  • Security Guard Work

  • Security Guard Robots

  • Cobaltrobotics.com

  • No fear that we will lose our important thoughts and resources

  • ideaflow.io (#internal doc)

  • We will be more creative, we will discover connections between our ideas and those of others

  • We will discover people who have thought about the same stuff
  • No fear of the regret we’ve missed opportunities within our reach

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- ?Rapid Knowledge Capture
- ?Managing Knowledge Work Overload
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- Most General #topLevel

  • Utopia

  • Health

  • Happiness
  • Prosperity

  • Tranquility

  • Achieving Peace of Mind ↖

  • 'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.’ ~Dag Hammarskjold

  • “Don’t let the energy escape” / ”Every tragedy ever can be reduced to two words: potential, lost.” ~Oiver Emberton. <> “To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.” ~Steve Prefontaine.

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Problems #problem

  • In the process of storing our ideas, the storage interface distracts us, our thoughtstream is disrupted and then we are f--ed up #problem
  • Air pollution in Ulaan Batur #problem
  • Air quality Lahore is >400 #problem

  • Death of coral reefs #problem

  • See also: http://climatechange.jacobcole.net/

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Problems #EasilySolvable with the right connection

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Admitsphere.org

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- Wiki of why all the things in the world that are awesome are awesome whyisitawesome.jacobcole.net
- Whyisitawesome.wikispaces.com
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- Thoughtfulweb.jacobcole.net – ThoughtfulWeb – Places on the web where you can find thoughtful, artful, and mindfully content. An oasis of good taste for the soul.

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Art and Literature

  • Finding the language for our experience

  • Literary Magazines

  • Nimbus.watch – ~Danish!

  • McSweeney’s

  • Art Museums

  • Virtual

  • https://artsandculture.google.com/

  • Novels

  • The Waves

- See also: http://thoughtfulweb.jacobcole.net/ , http://bookslist.jacobcole.net/ , http://quoteslist.jacobcole.net/

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To Sort

- Fixing the Internet – Missing Internet Infrastructure #connectorDoc #conversation with Roger Macdonald <> Internet Archive

#BrainstormDocs

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- “figuring out wedding venues that would be covid safe but still impress her parents 😂” ~charles. Contact [email protected]

  • Scratch notes with Jenni #conversation

  • Systems thinking

  • Connection over missions that have reality independent of people Bonds people who are very different

  • Talk about things that have nothing to do with selves personally but have something to explore <> “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

  • “Swarming effect” – swarm on problems

  • “Uncanny glimmer of hope”<-- the inspiration behind inaction or apathy; something arises so you can feel less alone and perhaps decide it’s worth taking action

  • Sustainable fashion brands leveraging ecommerce influencer marketing--PANGAIA

  • Missions in world #curate

  • Sustainable transportation

  • Awesome local organic-spirit food everywhere
  • Jimbo's a piece of organic fruit in every child's recycled lunch bag
  • X person’s dad has cancer — x10,000
  • X kid on a Native American reservation can’t get access to healthy produce x4,000
  • X village in TZ has no working well pump and people need to walk 3 miles to get muddy water from riverbed
  • J’s friend is living a financially stable life as real estate professional but is not living up to full creative potential — Eg being in band

  • X college graduate struggling to land dream job (with missional purpose), but does not have opportunities to tap into immediately and too much student debt so must settle for uninspired work as a first job

  • Jacob’s Notes

- Different degrees of centeredness <>Helping ppl is analgesic...

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- 3 types of motivation :

  • 1) Motivation for it’s own sake (learn a talent, enjoying the mastery of something new)
  • 2) Motivation to help others/solve problems that block others
  • 3) Motivation to prove something (make money, success, etc--self gain)

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- What would people pay to do ? What is a job if you had to pay to do it you would do it?
- Pay for as leisure/rec?
- Help people build biz that should exist <>fixingtheinternet "serious fun" #MindBlown

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- fixingtheinternet
- <>What people pay to do...
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- If your stable and secure in who you are
- Then you contribute in so much of a different way so much more
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- Missions in world #curate
- Sustainable transportation
- Awesome local organic-spirit food everywhere
- Jimbo's a piece of organic fruit in every child's recycled lunch bag
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- Forget incentives
- Look at everything ppl should be doing
- Just tell everybody what to do
- Get benefits - more for everyone
- Forget incentives
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- Trading circles
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- Donate to consumer behavior change — charitable contribution dollars to get people who would have bought ordinary care to buy tesla
- Way to fund companies to positive externalities
- Individual personal level of it — just one person is better than abstract
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- If you give money to someone doing what you want to do in the world it's not like you're giving the money away but having them enact your will
- Like philanthropy
- Coming from sense of enough
- Even if poor unless dying but even if so — were all dying
- Don't have to wait to be philanthropist - thinking can benefit your life
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- Contributing to jimbos mission.
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- LoHaS - lifestyles of health and sustainability
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- Vlogging investment curated
- Gourmet #Disproportionate
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- Scarlet letter on unsustainable
- Or unhealthy
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- Influencers promote sustainable biz
- Or promote you if you have good score
- Buying tesla about promoting sustainability
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- Pangea brand seaweed recycled #Disproportionate fashion
- Rare cars / art pieces
- - buying status / respect
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- Instead of feeding fat cats
- All your actions are part of a mission
- You as consumer are doing job creation - do you want to. Relate sustainable or unsustainable
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- Charitable campaign
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- Digital edu scavenger hunt
- #idea  Through historical world in minecraft
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- Climate change burning down louvre
- Look at how dasu notre dame
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- Middle East bombing Babylon
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- Sparks #goodWork
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- Briona Park #Barronpark #paloalto
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- People not in touch w emotional selves
- Must look into people’s biographies-- another way of not taking people too seriously when you shouldn’t (don’t make them such gurus in your own life)
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- Do it as tai chi
- Or do it later
- Cleaning dishes 2 Approaches
- Expand things you can do as tai chi perfect breathing
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- Helping ppl is analgesic - mom
- Navy seals do best who think about needing to inspire other guy- focusing on others pain
- <>Different degrees of...  
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- Home alone
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- Life is just a big distraction for most part for these people
- Super busy
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- This is tech for getting people out of subtle places of mediocrity
- Connect all ppl who are too lazy to become enlightened
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- Let's all get up and for a war against our hidden oppressor
- Take arms against a sea of troubles
- Book of dark secrets willing to share — learned secrecy early
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- Want people to live in world where they believe
- If I
- Rather remain cynic— love to wallow in that
- Hope is we don't settle for that
- - sad because
- Something shifts in moment you realize you're not alone w sadness
- Do we feel like world is not alone w feeling
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- Cancer immediately switch to emotional support mode
- Doubt who am I this is ridiculous
- - shifting to mode of surrendering to issue
- Tool that makes people realize shift — uncanny glimmer of hope that ;
- Otherwise lack in apathy
- But of tool that empowered me to be problem solver — use cerebro the apparatus
- What if things are really different — blockchain warp, superconductors - it's apathy we're fighting.
- Crazy world shift — generation suffering lack of inspiration
- Something tangible exists
- Hopefulness in something being useful enough or way to connect another dot toward the solution
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- Weird impostor syndrome - who am I to think i can cure disease — likely a waste of my energy - switches from being wise — accepting things I cannot change
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- Looking for key force of people w these skills
- You want to cure your parents cancer
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- You actually can be there to cure your parents cancer w your skill set
- Need that great ops person
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- Cure widespread mediocrity
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- It's healthy to not try to change the things you can't
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- God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
- courage to change the things I can,
- and wisdom to know the difference.[1] #good
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- Barnes
- Jenni
- Adam
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- X persons dad has cancer
- Y person's dad has cancer
- Cancer isn't the problem
- Ea persons cancer or potential to develop it
- X person is feeling subtle mediocrity and oblivion seeking
- Y person the same see these subtle epidemics
- Report issues no matter how small or stupid
- Open gestalts
- See what resonates
- Not needing to wait for a blog post or whatever to go viral and nucleates everyone
- Connect dots between separate such blog posts
- "Barely have time to close them to sleepl"
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- Just because things are being done a certain way
- Doesn't mean I like this #BehaviorChange
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- Goes from full to sharp connect dots between mediocrity
- Suddenly realize acuteness it's your small
- Problems but it's huge if you see it at scale
- Lack of inspiration it's like a cancer slowly killing us wake up to the scot
- Come home

  • Jenni’s Notes

  • First principles--start with pure insights independently from teasing out monetization of ideas

  • “It’s healthy to try to change the thing you can’t change (or feel unable to)”-Jacob

  • Uncanny glimmer of hope (if Ideaflow-like thing existed) that things could change

  • Sub-idea: Create a giant database of all the wrong things in the world (crowdsource from people anonymously or knowing submitting)

  • Start to link commonalities

  • Shifts can happen when you see so many other struggling with same thing; not alone

  • Book Rec from Jacob--Gateway To the Miraculous---Wolfe Lowenthal #bookrecommendation

  • Common thought among philosophers---there’s hope in their brilliance and achievement; they had such traumas

  • As more fortunate individuals, our barriers were a lot easier, does this suggest we can go even further? There’s confidence in this.

  • Unprocessed traumas--most people (even with seemingly great upbringings)

  • Abstract motivation is not enough “we need to cure global poverty”

  • Get granular, specific

  • Afghan Kid Sling Shot video on Youtube---- Jacob sad if in 10 years no kids would play outside this way. And instead due to westernization, everyone has smartphone addictions.
            “Cultural Endangered Species”----Yes!

  • Need for harmonious solutions w/o depriving modern technologies

  • Intros--Maxwell--climate change group #intros

  • What is the way we can materially impact/incentivize climate change solutions?

  • Tesla subsidy example

  • Literally charitable contribution of your choosing//how consumers spend their dollars enables direct investment (in a way)

  • What if normal non-profit work merged in partnership with a for-profit groups charitable giving fund (limitless funding, economies of scale)---exists a bit today, but everything is fragmented

  • 80% of ppl are likely wasting their time (subpar ENG)

  • “Lavishly support highly talented people”

  • “In a world your thoughts or ideas can have a soft landing and can be met with as much kindness as possible”--Jacob

Learning Quests (Self Development, Also Part of Project Earth)

  • Get into playing Robocode and learn to build a linear targeter. Awesomely fun game and way to master trig and learn Java programming from scratch.

Resourceshttp://robocode.jacobcole.net/
- Build a battery from scratch #todo add tutorial link
- Build an oscillator from scratch with BJTs (transistors)

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- #App Shortcut coach that tracks your actions and occasionally suggests a shortcut to improve efficiency and auto-programming macros for you.

http://volunteerforce.jacobcole.net/
http://projectconnect.jacobcole.net/

http://climatechange.jacobcole.net/
        See Alarming Climate Change Facts Sublist

http://systemicchange.jacobcole.net/
coronavirus.jacobcole.net

http://favorverse.jacobcole.net/
http://ubiquitizingmeditativepractices.connectordocs.com/

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http://jcombinator.network/

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http://hmmtank.com/

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Key Quotes from Jack’s inspiring talk

54:49 "30 years ago I was diagnosed with leukemia. If I hadn't done some immediate research before I accepted the doctor's ideas of what I was going to do we wouldn't be having this conversation."

58:57 "A stage five [kidney disease] means you get a transplant or you go on dialysis. I screwed up and became stage four, so I'm using the crap out of LiteNet [Jack's information management system] now to study kidney disease. This is the kind of stuff that's going to befall a lot of people and they're not even going to see it coming. I mean I'm a guy that studies math, studies medicine, and I listen to my body, and I still screwed up. It's just gonna happen, so whatever we can do – everybody who's in this on this call right now – and whatever we can do to get ourselves geared up to this kind of thinking – whatever it is – your brand is not the same as my brand and I don't want it to be, but your brand is going to affiliate with my brand and I'm going to affiliate with yours, and we're going to learn from each other and that's how this the planet's going to get fixed...There was a lot to like in your demo"

56:00 “I'm here today and it's because I learned how to do research. Look I was simply motivated, you know what I'm saying? Now we're faced with a pandemic and everybody should be as motivated as I was when I was diagnosed with leukemia, but they're not; they still go to the beach they go to parties and not wear their face masks and blah blah blah, and we have this other thing called climate change – and look, you and I are in California – I don't know about the rest of these people, but California is burning and the Gulf Goast is being flooded and the East Coast is probably going to have some some of its own problems – the point is climate change is going to be equivalent to a diagnosis of leukemia very soon for all humankind.”        

57:13 “We need these tools, all of them, and to be honest with you, they need to be in the hands of everybody. And we need the MOOCs and the blogs and the people learning how to use them, so they can think clearer. This is it. This is our mission."

On Guilds

1:20:57 "The six of us in this room right now are effectively a guild. Why did I say guild?...We've come together to talk about a problem space and we've come together maybe in the context of actually doing a solution...

When somebody once stood up in a conference room [in Palo Alto and asked me] 'How could we have civil conversations online about politics?' my answer was 'World of Warcraft meets global sense making'. Why did I say that? It's because when humans come into guilds to do epic quests – how world of Warcraft is, you know? the legends of Zelda and whatever – and you're going into a cave and what are we doing in the guild in World of Warcraft is, you know, 'that guy over there is going to drive this tank' and 'this person's going to wield these swords' and this person's going to do this and  they're playing roles in a Warcraft sort of thing – but what are they doing is they're problem solving, they're inventing a solution – how can we win this battle? – and it's against a quest to save Zelda or whatever.

Okay, but now, supposing, the quest is 'what are the known causes of climate change?' – so we would now have our roles well:  'I need somebody to be the group philosopher and invent what questions should we be asking' and some group of members would be role players saying 'well here's the kinds of answers we think we're hypothesizing; these are the answers: CO2 is a cause and blah blah blah', and then 'We need these research rabbits who actually go out on the web and try and bring in evidence'.  It's the same process you do if you’ve got a cancer: what are the questions I should ask, what are the answers I need answers to, and where's the evidence for these, for these ideas. Okay, so you're doing this in this guild – doing these roles now in the guild.” ~Jack Park, on Guilds and Global Sense Making
This is how this world is going to get fixed. Build humanity 3.0 - civilizational technology
Raw:
"the six of us in this room right now are
effectively a guild
why did i say guild
 that's one of my
favorite words by the way jack
we've come together to talk about a
problem space
and we've come together maybe in the
context of actually doing a solution
okay now that isn't exactly why we're
here today but let's we're pretending
so when somebody once asked me in
in in up in in palo alto
um he stood up in a conference room and
said how could we
how could we have civil conversations
online about politics
my answer was world of warcraft meets
global sense making that was my answer
why did i say that it's because
when humans come into guilds
to do epic quests now world of warcraft
is you know the legends of zelda and
whatever and you're going into a cave
and what
what are we doing in the guild in world
of warcraft is
you know that guy over there is going to
drive this tank and
this person's going to wield these
swords and this person's going to do
this and that
they're playing roles but they're in a
warcraft sort of thing
but what are they doing they're problem
solving they're inventing a solution
how can we win this battle and it's
against
a quest save zelda or whatever
okay but now supposing the quest is what
what are the known causes of climate
change
so we would now have our roles well i
need somebody to have
to be the group philosophic philosopher
and invent
what questions should we be asking and
somebody else would be in
some group of members would be role
players saying well here's the kinds of
answers we think
we're hypothesizing these are the
answers co2 is a cause and blah blah
blah
and then we need these research rabbits
who actually go out on the web and try
and bring in evidence
it's the same process you do if you got
a cancer
what are the what are the questions i
should ask what are the answers i need
answers to and where's the evidence for
these
for these ideas okay so you're doing in
this guild
these roles now in the guild"

My Thoughts (Park)

Fundamentally, I see the big picture as one of taming information. I am inspired by the book Taming Text. I was pointed at that book when I mentioned at an Apache Solr meetup that I was building a platform I called SolrSherlock - a Watson-like agent system - on Solr; the book’s co-author told me his book was available in early access so I bought it. It was clear, concise, and very helpful. I later stopped using Solr and migrated to ElasticSearch, so I renamed the project to be less tech-centric to OpenSherlock.

The book concept generalizes from taming text to taming information, but in that space, we must consider a primary engine of information creation: humans. And, the prime mover of information by humans is conversation, so my game is really one of taming conversations.  Guild processes in the context of epic quests, for me, serve that purpose.

Here is a book review for Total Engagement. which is about this entire concept.

Thoughts about talk - Chris Barnes

The talk was genuinely incredible. I found Jack’s framework of work as a series of “quests” that are performed with a “guild” to be particularly insightful, and have been pondering it for the past few weeks. I think that framing work as a progression through a series of quests is beneficial for a series of reasons:
- It is a framework that encourages thoughtful selection, and appreciation for the work that you are currently pursuing. It’s not just a job, every single project is a quest that is undertaken with a group of dedicated guild-mates for a specific purpose.
- For me, it frames life as an epic adventure. Thinking of myself as an adventurer going on joint missions with fellow adventurers draws a personal parallel to the stories that I’ve read in the past about heroes. The Quest framework allows me personally to embody the hero position, but in an incredibly humble way, as I’m a hero surrounded by other purposeful adventuring heroes as well.

Scratch notes:

Ravi Bajaj
- Gift economy: no concept of “needing” to work to receive. Each person gives their gift willingly: just like people are into math recreationally, someone’s really into giving the gift of food, recreationally, some are into giving the gift of shoes, recreationally → everyone gets free food and shoes, etc.

  • Marcel Mauss #anthropologist studied gift economies: “The Gift”.  The secret as that giving is not something we do, it’s something we are; it comes from a state of nonaction <> “Movement is not something we do, it’s something that we are” ~Emilie Conrad #effortlessness #wuwei . Stillness isn’t stasis. Altruism isn’t something we do, it’s something we are, it doesn’t require mind-intent

  • Brahman

  • Different types of proofs in hinduism and buddhism :

  • Pradhaksha

  • Anumana inference
  • Testimony
  • Comparison
  • Presumption

  • Anupalabhdi - non recognition, non perception, not feeling anything

  • Anu “un” – palabhdi “feeling”

  • Advaita vedanta

  • According to dharmakapdi anu isn’t separate category of brahman.

  • Heart unmoved

  • Yogananda “stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds”

  • Nugaloca raleigh durham commune ravi stayed

  • <>Matt Damon MIT commencement speech: helpful problems like water.org not super technical – blake elias paper – Pandemic Response as Reinforcement Learning

  • Online learning algorithm – not technically hard

  • Trick is how you get a political body to implement problem

  • Learning was lost because grandparents didn’t experience spanish flu

The stakes are higher than you might expect; our future as a human race depends on our ability to build "humanity 3.0", which can think and act together at an unprecedented scale, that  2 augment intelligence with a digital brain  , allowing vaster states of awareness that can solve the problems we've created today. As Einstein said, you can't solve problems with the same level of consciousness that created them. And an easeful, flow-inducing note-taking that is friendly with every state of consciousness is just the first step.